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Drafting and redrafting

By Tien Chiu | Published: April 2, 2011

I’m getting closer to a draft I like.  I’ve been playing with network drafting, setting up a basic line in warp and weft and then redrawing it on various networks to see how that affects the line. Here is my basic line: And here it is, redrawn on three different networks: This is instructive.  The [...]

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Waffling

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 8, 2010

By dint of hard labor (4 hours on Friday and another 6 hours on Saturday), I got the warp threaded, sleyed, tied on, debugged, and (ta-daa!) wove the first two yards of samples yesterday, all in variants of waffle weave.  I cut the sample in half and wet-finished half of it, though I didn’t press [...]

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Designing the liftplans

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 6, 2010

I’m now about 2/3 done with the threading, and expect to finish threading and sleying on Saturday (I still have lots more cherries to pit!).  Then, of course, I will have to debug the warp (I already know that I missed one thread somewhere), so I don’t expect to get down to serious weaving on [...]

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Network drafted threading

By Tien Chiu | Published: August 4, 2010

I decided to play around with network drafting this morning, creating some threading/treadling patterns to see what combinations of threading/treadling result in which patterns.  The three main threading types I tried were the ones that Alice has in her book (Network Drafting, available on her website): turtles (a pattern that starts and ends on the [...]

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ocean sunset II

By Tien Chiu | Published: September 2, 2009

This shawl is created using a knitted blank and a warp dyed in 29 colors. Knitted blanks are an interesting concept taught to me by Nancy Roberts of Machine Knitting to Dye For. You knit up a rectangular piece of fabric, dye it, and then unravel it and reuse the yarn. Using this technique you can get gradual color changes WITHOUT having to dye a zillion skeins, which is exactly what I did!

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